Smart Grid

[Blue Duck]

After a few brown outs yesterday evening I checked http://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk and noted that we are running very close to capacity 49GW  

Then I thought about smart metering, what if it were the other way round?

Rather than using it as a system to tax us for having a shower at 7pm but as a way of monitoring local grid usage and rewarding areas for using less energy in peak times? 

Thus reducing strain on local equipment and reducing maintaince costs and nationally reducing our consumption?

just pondering

 

[roys]

More likely to use Smart meters to load shed when supply capacity is a bit tight certain houses / streets in order to keep more "critical" loads on.

 

[pewter]

I thought the ultimate goal is so they can control equipment in our homes to reduce demand on the grid during peak times.

 

[ProDave]

I still don't see the "consumer benefit" in having a smart meter. Until I do, I won't be having one.
 

 

[Andy™]

saves them having to send someone to read it and then they dont have to rely on estimated readings. oh wait, i do have a smart meter and they still send estimated readings...

 

[Murdoch]

Recently had a new meter. Not a smart meter!

 

[Tony S]

We are teetering on the edge with our national power supply. Look at the proportion fed in to the system by CCGT’s, where does the gas come from?

When I saw the thread title I thought Ducky had latched on to FUN-LV distribution system. (Flexible Urban Networks - Low Voltage)

I’ll start a new thread later.

 

[OnOff]

First power cut in as long as I can remember last night. 2.25hrs to sort.

Yet again it made me think I really should make the gennie more easily accessible and fit the changeover switch I bought umpteen years ago when cuts were a regular thing!

 

[ProDave]

what's wrong with a widow maker lead? :innocent
 

 

[steptoe]

I just have a 16a commando inlet outside and a double socket inside a kitchen unit, :|

 

[ProDave]

I just have a 16a commando inlet outside and a double socket inside a kitchen unit, :|

So you only need a short widow maker lead?
 

 

[steptoe]

So you only need a short widow maker lead?
 

 Nope. :slap

Anything needing to be used gets plugged into that socket, eg, boiler, 

 

[OnOff]

what's wrong with a widow maker lead? :innocent
 

More to the point I couldn't find mine.....

Lawnmower engine/alternator/inverter.....nuff to sort the CH!

 

[Blue Duck]

Apologies, I should have replied to my own thread :lol: , but alas I've been having a few WiFi issues damn BT being the only fibre provider in my area! :|

More thoughts on the matter...

If the whole system was in a better state and state owned then you could let us the people take some more responsibility for our own energy use.

round these parts UKPN are still digging up the roads, perhaps this is the introduction if the FUN LV system?

We are teetering on the edge with our national power supply. Look at the proportion fed in to the system by CCGT’s, where does the gas come from?

When I saw the thread title I thought Ducky had latched on to FUN-LV distribution system. (Flexible Urban Networks - Low Voltage)

I’ll start a new thread later.

I had stumbled across FUN on UKPN''s website, you would have thought they would have been doing this stuff years ago...  they are a Chinese hedge fund.

PED control algorithms  :coffee

@Onoff

https://youtu.be/ka0MfipmdBw

can't embed youtu.be vids But it's (yet another) link to photonicinduction's battery backup system, very clever IMO!